WTOP/FM: Several wannabe outlaw local #Virginia prosecutors, incl #Spotsylvania County, say they won't enforce new legislation signed into law by #VAgov Spanberger banning the sale of certain #guns b/c they fear suffering same fate as a similar case from MD #SCOTUS refused to hear #FAFO, jerks.

WTOP/FM: Several outlaw-wannabe local #Virginia prosecutors, incl #Spotsylvania County, say they won't enforce new legislation signed into law by #VAgov Spanberger banning the sale of certain guns b/c they fear suffering the same fate as a similar case from MD that #SCOTUS refused to hear.

#FAFO, jerks.

#USpol

Rep. Mike Levin: "This is this is not okay. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. His son's name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. Alito didn’t recuse himself. This is a clear conflict of interest, and Americans deserved to know about it." #politics #SCOTUS
The Top 10 Reasons Donald Trump’s $1.776 Billion “Weaponization” Slush Fund and Super-Pardon for His Family and Businesses Are Unconstitutional, Illegal and a Fraud on the Court

Washington, D.C. (May 27, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a new fact sheet detailing the top 10 reasons why Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund and super-pardon for his family and businesses are unconstitutional, illegal, and a fraud on the court.

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democrats
Scotusblog: the #SCOTUS is increasingly using the argument of 'common sense' to skirt the actual language of the relevant legislation, and rely on intuition rather than precedent. "Please lock that door, it don't make much sense
That common sense, don't make no sense no more" (John Prine) https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/the-supreme-courts-common-sense-problem/
The Supreme Court’s common sense problem

#SCOTUS justice Clarence Thomas, perhaps discovering he is still Black, has rejected #Alabama's appeal to use its 2023 electoral map, which was found to be racially discriminatory and politically motivated https://www.newsweek.com/clarence-thomas-deals-republicans-temporary-blow-redistricting-war-12010683
Clarence Thomas Deals Republicans Temporary Legal Blow in Redistricting War

The conservative justice is a longtime skeptic of using racial discrimination arguments when it comes to congressional maps.

Newsweek

#SCOTUS ❝Callais decision was a political gift to Donald Trump…

Before Callais, political observers expected Trump’s party to lose the House…

…But now, it could take a much larger supermajority of Americans… to reflect the will of the people and actually vote them out of power.

…Callais empowers #Republicans to decimate Black representation and undermine democracy in state legislatures, city councils, and school boards, not just Congress.❞

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-need-for-supreme-court-reform-is-clearer-than-ever/

#USpol #midterms2026

The need for Supreme Court reform is clearer than ever

To preserve our democracy, we must reform the Supreme Court. In its recent Louisiana v. Callais decision, the Court’s Republican majority completed its years-long campaign to neuter the Voting Rights Act.

People's World

#Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority #Black District

Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval on Friday to a new congressional map that would eliminate 1 of the state’s 2 majority-Black districts, making it the second Southern state to draw & approve carving out such a district since #SCOTUS weakened the #VotingRightsAct​ last month.

#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #BigLie #ActivistCourt #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #redistricting #gerrymandering
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/louisiana-redistricting-map-majority-black-district.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority-Black District

A Supreme Court court ruling last month rejected the state’s previous congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander and set off a redistricting race across the South.

The New York Times